Kerry jockey’s drink and cocaine spiral — ‘I remember thinking what the f**k am I doing’
Gearoid Brouder. Photo Mark O'Sullivan.It was the combination of family rifts and a declining career as a jockey and trainer that brought Gearoid Brouder to the verge of irreversible failure before he turned his life around.The 31-year-old Listowel native’s talent was in a tailspin because of drink and drugs. The sport he loved was slowly being eclipsed by weekend binge drinking and embarrassing phone calls and text messages making excuses why he could not ride a horse or fulfil a morning’s work riding.
